"I was an Airman working in the 9th AMS photo shop
from 1975-1977. In the spring of '77 I rode the Habu
hauler in to work with my 35mm camera (in its case --
we weren't allowed to photograph the shop areas for
security reasons, so I wanted the casual observer to
see that the camera was "not open for business").
Anyway, in the morning I went out on the launch truck
to take pictures of 979 going out on a mission to
Korea. We had loaded 979 with two OOC and one TROC
cameras. 979 was fitted with a SLR nose on this day. The plane took off fine but aborted the mission after
about 1.5 hours. I was out taking pictures of the
aircraft and trying to stay out of the way. All these
color photographs came from this launch." - Steven Myatt